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"its a little early to see any so dont be discouraged."

they nodded and allowed the woman to leave. the silence took over the room again. this continued for hours, every hours a nurse would come in check irukas levels and leave. after the fourth time of the same results they stopped asking.

they were jarred out of their thoughts when the door opened just five minutes after the nurse had left. they relaxed when they saw ibiki.

"i figured i would find you all here."

he glanced to iruka and frowned. shaking his head he went on to tell them.

"the hokage is furious, your little care package you sent over to her office with the scroll and senbon with your test kit will be enough for her to remove someone from the council when she finds out who did it."

that made them feel a little bit better about their present situation.

"how is he?"

"no change"

ibiki nodded, he had been informed of what had taken place, the entrance guard had been handed over to him earlier in the day and he was singing like a canary. turning to leave he stopped at the door before saying.

"the hokage has a new mission for your team"

he could feel the killing intent radiating towards him, smiling since he knew they couldnt see his face he continued.

"she wants you to guard iruka from whoever was trying to put a hit on him. just until he's back on his feet of course, but until then you are to make sure nothing happens to him"

the killing intent dissapeared instantly. ibiki left before anything else was said. once ibiki had gone the team relaxed some knowing that they were going to be allowed to stay with the chunin indefinatly, not even the doctors could order them to leave.

"do you think they'll give us a couple minutes with whoever orchistrated this whole fiasco?"

the others smiled to genma before shaking their head.

"dont think so, something tells me you bashing the examiners brains in will make them think we might be hostile"

genma shrugged before muttering that he had deserved it. his team smiled. they agreed with him of course, but it didnt change what was happening to iruka. the next hour the nurse came in like always and was in the midst of her test, when she glanced up to all of them.

"you realize that visiting hours are almost over"

"he's our mission"

it was the first time kakashi had spoken since they had gotten iruka at the gate. the woman frowned at him before looking at iruka and asking.

"he a chunin, how-"

"jounin, he passed the test"

the woman paused a second before nodding.

"alright jounin, he's in the best place he can be right now, i dont see why he needs anbu guard"

"thats why your not the hokage"

raidou commented snidly. the woman frowned at him before recording her findings and leaving in a huff. once she was gone they snickered.

"you should all go take showers and grab some food"

they glanced to their captain as if he had grown another head.

"and what about you?"

asuma asked skeptically.

"once your back i'll do the same, but only because i know you'd bitch at me if i didnt"

they nodded and dissapeared in a flash of smoke. leaving kakashi with iruka. with the room to himself he crept closer to iruka and pulled his mask to the side to be able to really look at him. reaching out he stroked the mans cheek.

"im so sorry iruka"

sighing he reached out and took the ninjas hand before sitting back down. putting his mask back in place he waited for his team to come back to relieve him. it was only a half an hour later that the first of them arrived. raidou appeared and nodded to him, getting up he said he'd be back soon and dissapeard. once kakashi was gone raidou looked to iruka and said.

"you better come back to us kid, kakashi needs you"

it wasnt long before his lover joined him and soon after asuma and kurenai. kakashi finally returned as well, bringing the team back together in their mission to watch the man. with the sun setting they began to have doubts on whether they were going to get any good news about the man. the nurse came in on the hour mark like always and ran her tests, as she was leaving genma couldnt help but ask if there had been any change. she smiled at him but shook her head. sighing the team fell into silence.

the night passed slowly, the nurses reported to them that there had been no change, each time it drove a stake a little deeper in their hearts. they were losing him. it was 3 in the morning when the nurse came in to test him again and replace some bags on his iv pole. she ignored the anbu standing guard having been warned when she came on shift. smiling to them she went about her work, making sure the chunin was as comfortable as he could be, administering pain medication just in case, more antidote for the poison ravaging his body and some more saline. taking a clean syringe she drew some blood and proceeded to test it. shaking the test about to hurry it, once it had beeped, she glanced down. frowning she was about to test again when the wolf anbu asked.

"whats wrong?"

jolting out of her thoughts she spoke as she went about her task.

"its propably nothing, sometimes the tests fail. im just gonna recheck to make sure...damn alright i'll be right back"

she left before they could question her anymore. dread spread throughout their bodies, it was only a couple minutes later when a doctor accompanied the nurse back into the room. he was holding the test and argueing with her. the anbu werent able to ask what was going on before the man drew some more blood and did his own test. the nurse was shifting from heel to heel nervously afraid that maybe she had screwed up and summoned her superior for nothing. the man was just about to glance back at the test when the alarms connected to iruka started blarring. the anbu jumped at the sudden noise and the doctor and nurse scrambled to turn the noise off not only for their benefit but for the twitchy nin's in the room.

"whats going on!"

kakashi cried out, asuma held him back, preventing him from getting in the doctors way. the man was scrambling around the chunin trying to find what had set off the alarms, while the nurse looked at the print outs the machine was spilling out rapidly about the chunin in question.

"go get kento now!"

the nurse ran out of the room and the doctor turned to the anbu.

"i need you to leave, you can wait in the hall"

"no"

the doctor frowned at kakashi and was about to retort that he would call the hokage, when alarms sounded again and he had just enough time to turn around to see iruka start to convulse.

"shit!"

he tried to brace the man's body, but he wasnt strong enough. genma and raidou shot into action and pushed the man's body down as they felt the tremors fight against their hold. the doctor nodded at them before slamming his hand down on a red button on the wall and slamming his other hand against the siren's going off in the room, making it eerily silent as iruka buckled in their hold.

"do something dammit"

kurenai shouted to the still doctor who seemed to be frozen standing to the side of iruka. the man shouted back.

"there's nothing to do, we have to wait for the seizure to end"

raidou and genma gritted their teeth, it felt like they would snap the chunin in half, they didnt want to hurt him, but knew the best thing they could do was hold him down while he seized so he didnt injure himself while flailing.

the door bashed against the wall as the nurse and presumidly the man named kento she was sent to retrieve. the girl gasped and was pushed out of the way by the man.

"how long"

"a minute"

the time seemed to stretch on for eternity for the anbu as they watched their friends body buck uncontrollably. finally almost two minutes in the twitching reduced until it finally stopped. the med nins rushed forward pushing genma and raidou out of the way as they started to examine iruka. the man named kento drew out a syringe and quicly retrieved a vial from one of his pockets, drawing the correct amount he shoved the syringe into the man's cathider and administered the drug. the other doctor took his time to reset all of the equipment, leaving his collegue to attend to medicating the man. having done all they could for the man, they stood back to watch him a moment.

"trigger?"

"fever spike, his temperature skyrocketed too suddenly and his body couldnt compensate. the tolphrinal should prevent it from happening again."

the anbu listened intently as the two med nin's talked back and forth to each other. seeming to come to the same conclusion they turned to the anbu captain. kakashi waited his chest beginning to hurt from the lack of air as he refused to breath.

"we gave him some medicine to reduce his fever, at least temporarily. he shouldnt have another seizure, but i have to warn you we are running out of options. he doesnt seem to be responding to the antidote and we cant just keep pumping him full of it, his kidneys will shut down if we do. he's on the last pack we can give him. after that its up to him to fight off the poison. i understand he's your friend, but you should be prepared-take the time you have with him to say goodbye if thats what you need."

the doctor bowed his head and gathered his assistant and kento before heading for the door. genma stepped forward gaining their attention.

"what-what are his chances?"

the doctor sighed before looking back at the man lying on the bed.

"not good anbu-san. he most likely will never wake up even if he fights off the effects of the poison, which in itself is very unlikely now. like i said, you should be prepared to say goodbye."

with that the med nin's left the room leaving the anbu squad to their own thoughts. asuma hadnt let go of kakashi yet, instead he seemed to hold his captain all the tighter after hearing the news about the chunin. kakashi's hand reached up to asuma, the anbu was prepared for him to lash out in anger which made his actions all the more confusing when all he did was put his hand over asumas. his teammate didnt react to the rather personal touch by the man, he just continued to hang onto kakashi. it took a couple minutes for the man to gather himself, once he had he straightened himself out and shrugged out of asumas hold. he stepped forward and just watched the chunin as he panted into the oxygen mask. sweat was pouring from his brow, unable to stop himself he reached out and wiped the man's forehead, clearing it at least for now of the sweat accumulating on his body. pulling his hand back he stepped away from the bed to look at his team.

"genma inform the hokage of his condition, raidou find ibiki and let him know as well."

the two nodded and were gone in the blink of an eye. leaving kakashi with asuma and kurenai as his only company. they were silent allowing their captain to think. they watched behind their porcelien masks as kakashi retook his seat next to the window. silently watching iruka. looking to one another they couldnt help but draw closer to one another and reach for each others hands. they needed the reassurance that they were still together. still alive.

it barely took genma and raidou ten minutes to return to the room, simply mentioning that the hokage and ibiki knew and that they were taking appropriate actions. kakashi dully nodded to them, never taking his eyes off of iruka. like an hourglass genma watched as the antidote bag slowly drained into his friends limp arm. it took hours, but he watched as the clear liquid drained, until the bag was empty. wordlessly he approached and massaged the empty bag, making sure it hadnt clogged at all. his teammates looked at him in confusion.

"its empty, its up to him now"

they nodded, they didnt like it, but there was nothing they could do about it. so they used all their anbu skills to remain both on guard and patient. the hourly check ups had stopped after iruka's seizure so they had no way to know if he was reacting to the antidote at all or not.

just passed dawn a nurse came in and took down the empty bags and replaced them, minus the antidote bag.

"can you check"

the nurse jumped a little at the sudden question and swivvled around to face the man addressing her.

"check?"

"his blood"

realization dawned on her and she nodded before getting out the proper supplies. insesrting the needle into the catheder she withdrew some blood and placed it on the testing strip. seconds passed before the test must have revealed the answers. she turned to face them with a bittersweet smile, the anbu looked away. she bowed to them before leaving quietly. the day passed slowly, they never asked for the nurses to test him again. they knew that iruka wasnt winning the battle against the poison.

it was after lunch time that the door opened again, this time revealing the hokage herself. they bowed to her and she waved them off coming to stand over the chunin she smiled sadly before placing her hands over irukas chest and focusing her chakra on the man below her. she could feel a strange sensation throughout the man's body but didnt pay any attention to it, iruka's body was using his chakra to try and fight off the poison, it wasnt working.the green glow was the only thing they focused on as the hokage had her eyes closed, thinking hard as she sensed how sick the chunin was. pulling her hands back she sighed. without even looking at them she spoke, never letting her eyes trail off of the academy teacher.

" i've spoken with his doctors and they agree with me about the diagnosis"

"which is?"

kakashi asked, his tone blunt and cold. she tore her gaze away from iruka to look at kakashi.

"he's not going to change kakashi, we have done all we could for him. not even my abilities can undo the damage the poison has caused, simply put his body is giving out-we can of course hook him up to life support, but it will change nothing, it would only make him linger"

kakashi let his head hang, he had failed.

"there was nothing any of you could have done"

"we could have ended the exam and gotten him here sooner"

kakashi muttered sourly. tsunade smiled gently at the man who refused to look at her.

"i can honestly say that in my medical opinion even if you had stopped the exam as soon as he started showing symptoms and gotten him here, he would have had a slim chance"

"but a chance none the less"

she frowned at the anbu captain. looking to his teammates she reguarded the other silent people in the room. they refused to step forward and speak their minds, forcing her hand.

"you are his friends, he has no family. what would you like to do"

the anbu stilled instantly, the hokage was giving them the right to decide what happened to iruka? they looked to one another skeptically before kurenai stepped forward albiet reluctantly.

"im sorry hokage-sama, but its not our place-"

"its exactly your place, you know him best."

kurenai lowered her head, nodding solemly. there was a long pause before genma asked.

"could we wait a little longer...to make our decision?"

the hokage nodded to the anbu. heading to the door she paused only long enough to say.

"make your decision by the end of the day, if you want life support we will need to move quickly so his body doesnt start to waste away from the poisons effects. if you choose otherwise, we will let nature take its course"

with that she left them to think about what they would choose for the once energentic chunin. sighing genma slummped his shoulders, he wasnt surprised when he felt raidou pull him back against himself. he just relished in the contact between the two of them.

"you should go home and get some rest"

kakashi's voice was dull and lifeless as he instructed his teammates to leave.

"were not leaving you here alone"

"im not alone, iruka is here"

"iruka is in a coma"

kurenai winced at her own harshness, she hadnt meant to state it like that, but she wanted kakashi to see reason. the anbu captain sighed.

"just go get a few hours then you can come back if you want"

"and you?"

asuma asked.

"im not leaving him"

asuma frowned before stating.

"he would want you to take care of yourself"

"more than likely, but he doesnt get much of a say in it with where he's laying"

kurenai stopped her lover from argueing with kakashi any more. it was obvious that he wasnt about to leave the chunin. nodding to her teammates she spoke gently.

"we'll give you some time alone with him, but we'll be back later alright"

kakashi nodded. the anbu used the door this time instead of a jutsu and once the door was shut behind them, kurenai spoke.

"he needs some time alone with him, whether to curse him or say goodbye who knows, but the least we can do is give him that."

the others nodded before heading to their apartments for a couple hours rest. sleep wasnt about to come easy to them, even with the sleep deprivation they were all experiencing. how could they sleep well knowing that iruka lay there dying.

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kakashi waited until the door shut behind his teammates to get up from his seat. approaching the bed he reached out to take the cool hand of the man laying comatose.

"im so sorry iruka, i i should have done something, anything. i shouldnt have waited so long-i wanted more time with you ya know. i wanted to get to know you better to-to be able to share ourselves with one another. you dont deserve this and i promise you that whoever did this will pay. i wont rest until they do."

leaning over he kissed the hot forehead of the chunin, ignoring the sweat trailing down the mans head. pulling back he let go of irukas hand and retook his seat to wait. he wouldnt leave iruka, not until it was over.

hours passed in silence, kakashi never speaking, never moving. he didnt dare try and read, he couldnt tear his gaze away from the struggling man on the bed. even after all this time it still surprised him when obitos eye would start to cry.

'i know obito, i know'

moving his mask aside he wiped his eye to clear the fog of tears. placing his mask back on he waited.

four hours went by before the door opened again, genma and raidou walked silently to their posts, not bothering to greet kakashi or ask if there was a change while they were gone. it would be cruel to do so. not long after kurenai and asuma returned as well, though they brought a care package for kakashi.

"we brought food, we know you havnt eaten so-"

"thank you"

she smiled as the silver haired nin moved his mask aside to eat the offered food. he could barely taste the amazing cooking that kurenai had made for him. everything was bland now. dull. once he was done he threw away the trash before reclaiming his seat, his mask once again in place. his teammates watched as the sun began to set, finally it was raidou who asked the touchy subject.

"what are we going to do?"

they all knew what he meant, they had a choice to make for iruka. genma spoke up first.

"he wouldnt want to linger like that, i know that much"

kurenai nodded followed shortly by asuma. they waited for kakashi to put in his thoughts, but when he didnt asuma asked him.

"we let nature take its course."

they all nodded, prepared to answer the hokage when she came around again. they didnt have to wait long, only an hour past sunset the busty blonde came walking into the room. she didnt bother to smile at any of them, she knew it wouldnt be well recieved, not that she could blame them.

"have you made a decision?"

"we decided to let nature take its course"

the hokage nodded, approaching iruka she began to unhook some of the monitors. talking as she went.

"these things make a lot of noise as im sure your aware. they wont do him any good anyways so im taking them off of him to let you all have some peace and quiet-when the time comes"

the anbu nodded their thanks. they didnt want to hear the blazing sirens again, they would know when iruka passed. his chakra signature would die with him. once she was done she took one last opportunity to check over the man before laying her hands on his chest. the least she could do is let them know an estimate on how long he was expected to hang on. her hands glowed green again as she pushed her chakra into the small form to feel around his ravaged body.

the anbu watched as the machines were dissconnected from iruka, making him look like he was sleeping. granted he still had the iv and the oxygen mask, but all the other monitors were gone. the hokage began her final assesment and they watched patiently waiting for her to tell them how long he had left.

pulling her chakra back, she blinked confused. that was rather unusual. forcing her chakra back into iruka she let herself feel around to see if she had missed something. just like before she felt his chakra cacooning itself around his organs. she had felt it before when she first examined him, but thought nothing of it, it wasnt too far fetched to believe the man's chakra system was trying to defend itself from falling prey to the effects of the poison. but with iruka not getting better she had expected his chakra to let go of its struggle and give into the effects of the poison. his chakra remained untainted, surrounding his vital organs protectivly. letting her own chakra penetrate deeper her eye's widened when she realized what she was feeling.

the anbu watched as the hokage continued her exam for what seemed like an extended amount of time for a dying man. but when her eyes widened they had to ask what was wrong.

"he-his organs are intact"

puzzled the anbu looked to one another before returning their gaze to their hokage.

"they should be degrading under the poisons effects, but their not. his chakra system has cacooned all his vital organs protecting them from harm."

"thats a good thing right?"

genma asked, hope in his voice. the hokage nodded before retracting her own chakra.

"i'll be right back"

she stormed out of the room leaving the anbu more confused as to what she was up too. a moment later she returned with a cart and shooed genma and raidou over to the other side of the room. plugging the cart in she prepared the ultra sound device before moving the blankets out of the way to bear his chest to her, the bandages were cut away expossing horribly bruised flesh. ignoring it, she pressed the sonar device against his chest and watched as his heart continued to beat surrounded by a thin membrane of chakra. pointing it out on the screen to the anbu she explained.

"that little barrier is all thats keeping his organs from dying. for some reason iruka's chakra system is protecting his body from further harm."

"whats that mean?"

raidou asked, holding tightly onto genmas gloved hand.

"it means, that as long as he has chakra, his body is going to continue to fight the poison. its going to come down to which lasts longer, the poison or his chakra. one will burn out."

"and if the poison burns out first"

kakashi asked, daring to hope.

"if he can hold out a little longer he might just be able to beat this"

the anbu couldnt contain their excitment much to the amusement of their hokage. she put away the ultra sound machine and wiped irukas chest clean before tucking the blankets around him, there was no reason to rebind his chest if he ended up falling prey to the poison. if he beat it, they could always bind his ribs again.

"alright, there's really no point to hook him back up to the monitors since we can sense chakra signatures. just monitor his levels and that will tell you how he's doing. i dont need to tell you what will happen if his chakra drops too low."

they nodded fully understanding that iruka still had the odds stacked against him, but that at least he now had a chance.

"if anything changes, call someone, i dont care if he starts snoring while he's like this, if anything changes get someone in here asap"

they nodded their heads, they werent about to let this chance slip them by. nodding her head she told them she would return in the morning on her way out she gave them a little advice.

"talk to him-many people have claimed to be able to hear those around them when in a comatose like state. it might just be the thing to pull him out of this"

the anbu figgeted a little which made her smile. turning she left them to it. once the hokage was gone there was utter silence. none of them moving to actually talk to the chunin. sighing genma approached the bed and after fiddling with the straps of his armor for a minute started talking.

"you officially made the rank of jounin just so you know. i managed to break that proctors nose for being an asshat after you passed out. the council is in an uproar because the hokage is about to rip them a new one and ibiki is doing what ibiki does best. he's making the people who helped with your exam squeel like pigs."

his teammates took the time to chuckle here and there at their teammates monologue. genma ignored them as he continued.

"we managed to get kakashi to eat but if you really want to make sure he doesnt fuck himself up too badly your going to need to wake up to glare at him. kurenai brought him the food so we know it was at least healthy, he hasnt slept though. hell most of us havent actually, dont know about asuma and kurenai but me and raidou just paced the house until we could come back"

asuma stepped forward to interject.

"we didnt sleep a wink either, i helped kurenai prepare the food for kakashi and then we just stared at the walls of the apartment. we didnt know what else to do"

"see your making everyone go apeshit, so you need to keep doing what your doing until that poison burns up."

it was odd talking to themselves, but if the hokage thought it would help iruka, they would keep it up 24/7 until he woke up. they took turns talking about random shit from what they had watched during his exam to how they were sure this all counted as sick leave and iruka should get paid for it. the only one not to speak was kakashi, he listened intently to everything his teammates said, but he couldnt bring himself to actually talk, he knew that if he tried all he would end up doing is beg the chunin to wake up.

night turned into day and they followed a pattern of each of them taking some time to direct the conversation they had been passing around all night. they only paused when someone came in to check iruka or when one of them had to leave for the bathroom. it was around four in the afternoon when the hokage finally paid a visit, genma was the only one balsy enough to ask what happened to her coming in the morning. she glared at him before retorting.

"i do have a village to run and i was busy trying to clean up this whole mess. ibiki is all for torturing everyone who had anything to do with the exam, im sure you would all jump at the chance to help, but so far it seems that two of the examiners had nothing to do with any of this. they thought it was just a typical exam and the woman using the poison is claiming that it had been given to her by the head examiner like always. their both in custody of course, but they are still being a little shits right now. i dont expect them to last long against ibiki though. so lets see how sleeping beauty is doing"

walking up to the chunin, she pulled the ultra sound machine over to get a good look at the chakra barrier surrounding his organs. nothing had changed that she could see, the barriers still held at all the vital spots in his body. putting the machine aside she took out a forehead scanner for checking his temperature and slid it across the chunin's brow. reading the result she nodded before double checking his iv fluids. turning to the anbu she let them know.

"well everythings still in place, holding steady. so its as good as we could expect right now. i have no idea how long it might take him to fight off the poison so dont ask me kakashi. all i know is he's holding his own right now"

the anbu captain tilted his head to her, smiling she told them to keep up the good work. once she was gone they started a new round of conversation to keep the comatose chunin entertained whereever he was.

three more days passed like that, the anbu constantly talking to iruka, the barrier holding strong. they took shifts to allow the others to sleep in the chairs provided, none of them willing to possibly miss the chunin waking. even kakashi was convinced into sleeping some by his teammates, which made them feel better, and as genma put it, he would get a better report card from them to iruka. he scowled at that, but tried to behaive himself.
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